Certificate of identity for wife or child of a soldier

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         No. of Certificate T46760

                                                                     Army Form D455.

     SEPARATION ALLOWANCE and ALLOTMENT OF PAY.

            Certificate of  Identity for wife or child of a Soldier.

  Notice: -This Certificate is Government Property. Ιt is no security whatever for Debt.

         Any person improperly detaining it as a pledge or security for debt is liable to a fine of

  Twenty Pounds, or in the case of a second offence to imprisonment with hard labour for

   a term of Six Months.

  
  

         THIS IS TO CERTIFY that Mrs. Margaret Bales being the wife

  of  No.  5481   Rank and Name Pte. J. Bales.

  Regiment or Corps 

  Is entitled, subject to the Regulations, to payment of allowance at the Post Office

  at  Drogheda.

   

                            This Certificate is issued by:--

             Signature of Regimental Paymaster or Secretary

                   of Territorial Force Association… ...  ...                }

  CHECKED BY SECTION OFFICER

  Date … FAMILIES SEEN. -4 FEB 18                Address    

         CORK                                            

  
  

              THE  PAYEE  SHOULD  CAREFULLY  READ THE

                       FOLLOWING  INSTRUCTIONS.

       1. Τhis Certificate is the authority for the issue to you of

  your  weekly allowance.

       2. Payment is due each Monday, and will be made on production

  of this Certificate at the Post Office selected for payment.

       3. Should you be ill and unable to go to the Post Office,

  send someone  you can trust to the Post Office with your identity

  Certificate, to ask the Postmaster for the Army Allowance Form,

  so that you can sign the Form and get the Sick Certificate on the

  back signed also. The Postmaster will hold the Certificate until

  the signed Form is brought back to him. Then he will return it

  to the bringer with the money for you.

      4. As payment cannot be made without this Certificate it

  should be taken great care of. If it is lost you should at once

  inform the issuing office and also the Postmaster.

      5. Νotice should be given to the Postmaster in any case where

  it is desired to change the Post Office at which payment is made.

      6. No person is entitled to receive two separation allowances

  (whether Army or Navy) at different Post Offices. Where the

  regulations permit more than one allowance  to be drawn, all

  allowances must be drawn at the same Post Office.

      7. When writing about these allowances always quote the

  number of this Certificate and state the soldier’s regimental

  number, full name, regiment, and the Post  Office at which

  payment is made. Any change of address should be at once

  notified to the issuing office.

      8. Any circumstance affecting the rate of the allowance, such

  as the birth or death of  a child, should be reported at once to the

  issuing office. A person who continues to draw Separation

  Allowance for a dead child is liable to prosecution.

      9. This Certificate must be returned to the issuing office

  directly the spaces for the Post  Office Stamp have all been filled

  up or directly the allowance ceases to be payable.

      10. In the case of invalided soldiers  Separation Allowance is

  continued for two weekly payments after the date of discharge;

  but, with this exception, if the soldier is discharged, or transferred

  to the Army Reserve, you are not entitled to continue to

  draw Separation Allowance, and you should at once return this

  Certificate to the issuing office. Any attempt to procure irregular

  payment after the soldier’s discharge may be made the

  subject of legal proceedings.

      11. Separation Allowance ceases to be payable if a soldier

  Deserts, and any person who knowingly draws Separation Allowance

  during a period of desertion will become liable to be prosecuted

  for obtaining such allowance by fraud.

  
  

   D.D & L., London, E.C.

  (P7712) Wt. W16941/H3748. 850,000  3/17  W 27.     Forms

                                                                                               D.455

                                                                                                

  
  

  Post Office Date Stamp.

  N.B- Postmasters are warned not to

  make any payment after the last

  ring space of this certificate has

  been stamped.

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                                                POST OFFICE DATE STAMP.

  N.B.- Postmasters are warned not to make any payment after the last ring space has been stamped.

  
  

  
  

       N.B- The personating or falsely assuming the Name of Character of an Out-Pensioner, in order to obtain his

  Pension Money, or procuring any other person to do the same, is made FELONY by Act of Parliament.

       Any person who finds this Certificate is requested to forward it, in an unstamped envelope, to the Superintendent, Pension Issue Office, Baker Street, W.1.

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